Indian abortion doctors are feeding female fetuses to dogs to cover up rampant infanticide by parents who prefer boys

The sickening practice was exposed in the town of Beed, in Maharashtra - the state with the worst child sex ratio in India. So-called gender genocide was blamed for 2011's appalling census figures, which showed that just 801 girls were being born for every 1,000 boys. By keeping dogs, doctors can get rid of bodies without having to dispose of them through official channels. It means that the true extent of illegal sex-selection abortion in the town - and elsewhere in India - is being hidden. The shocking revelation was made by Varsha Deshpande of Lek Ladki Abhiyan, a charity working against the practice. She said that her organization had conducted a sting operation on Dr Sudam Munde in 2010, in which he openly talked about how he was aborting female fetuses and feeding them to his five dogs. Suresh Shetty, the public health minister for Maharashtra - India's second most populous state - also admitted that he had heard of fetuses being thrown to the dogs in Beed.